Here’s a statistic you may struggle to believe: 32 years have elapsed since John Williams last won an Academy Award. The most sought after composer in Hollywood since Erich Wolfgang Korngold was last ...

Some demonstrators left early. I suspect they had tickets to a show. The demographic was overwhelmingly middle-class and ...

The Spanish authorities have identified the remains of composer María Luisa Manchado Torres in last week’s train disaster. Maria, who was 70, was on her way to attend a university symposium about her ...

A few years ago, in the interval of a Wigmore Hall concert, I dropped into the green room to say hello to a friend and found myself in the thick of a Cold War. Three members of the Artemis Quartet ...

The conductor Gabriele Ferro has died in Palermo at the age of 88. He directed the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana from 1979 to 1997 as well as the national RAI orchestra. He also held posts as general ...

German media are shining a light on the violinist and composer Szymon Laks, who survived the hell of Auschwitz by leading a prisoners’ orchestra that was nade to play for the oppressors. After the war ...

William Hogarth, who died 262 years ago tomorrow, was by far the most significant English artist of his generation. Charles Lamb deemed Hogarth’s images to be books, filled with “the teeming, fruitful ...

We are very sad to learn of the passing of Stephen Kovacevich, a hugely admired and recorded pianist who recorded Viennese classical masters as if to the manner born. Stephen came from Los Angeles and ...

I’m a member of an orchestra which just announced that our season will be suspended. I’ve been in this orchestra for 20 years, have a family here. I know other orchestras have gone through this, and ...